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[DANS 00]

hey guys havent been on here for a little bit nothing much has happened if anything with the liberty with the wedding coming up,

so thinking of drift pipes for my gen2, 2.5L

as a tempory exhaust fix i was going to cut my rear muffler out compltely and put some drift pipes on, one because the rear muffler is entirely knackered but also i love the look of it and its a cheap fix which will be good because im broke.

so it currently has a 2inch cat back exhaust with only a rear lukey muffler, anyone know how loud this will be ?
also i think my cat is right up in the engine bay? is this normal i thought they were usually more towards the driver seat.
drift pipes are 2inch into twin 2.5 inch as im later going to do an entire 2.5 cat back system

thoughts ????



also have a set of GC8 headers just waiting to go on, just need a lil spare cash to get them fitted up and lengthed to meet up to the exhaust

[Sam]

I have a straight pipe. I also have a turbo, and it sounds wicked.

[DANS 00]

yeah my mate has a 02 wrx with straight pipes
sounds rrally good and personaly i dont think its overly loud

[bobbyjimmy]

Depends what size resonator you've got before the muffler.
A crap one or a hot dog, you car will sound shit.
A good one or even the stock one, it mightn't be too bad.

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I only had 1 hotdog resinator on the old RX, so pretty much straight pipes.

Sounds like arse. Turn down your speakers for the first video, it's loud.






The B4 with straight pipes sounds much better:

[Sam]

I am running a hotdog and a cat only. Sounds awesome.

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I am running a hotdog and a cat only. Sounds awesome.

On my B4 I have an exhaust cutout valve (as shown in video)

It opens it so that it has a cat only, not even a resonator. And it's not even THAT loud.

But the turbo's restrict the sound, if you had that set-up on an NA you'd blow you ears out.

[Sam]

Yeah I thought mine would have been WAY louder, but it could also be the 2.5" cat back, rather then a bigger 3"…

[bobbyjimmy]

if you had that set-up on an NA you'd blow you ears out.

+1.

A turboz muffles the sound too.

[DANS 00]

thanks heaps guys, im now leaning towards just getting a nice muffler on, from what i can tell it has a cat up practically in the engine bay, from there back it has a 2inch system with only a lukey muffler on the rear